No! It is neither possible, nor likely, that there are that many stupid people!
BUT, Most Americans don't actually read about Karl Marx's so-called "classless society" because they don't read Karl Marx. What they do know about, is Marx's so-called "class struggle/s". They can see people who are richer than them and who wouldn't even look …
No! It is neither possible, nor likely, that there are that many stupid people!
BUT, Most Americans don't actually read about Karl Marx's so-called "classless society" because they don't read Karl Marx. What they do know about, is Marx's so-called "class struggle/s". They can see people who are richer than them and who wouldn't even look down at them --- like Lazarus and the poor man in your Bible. Those people know "class". There are others, who don't like differences between poor and rich people. They want equality. They don't think about Marx's "pipe dream" classless society. They just want Justice and fairness. They become so-called Social Justice "warriors" or "activists". The name is never Marxism. It's named "woke" or "critically aware" or "socially just" --- never flat out MARXISM.
There are not very many "stupid" people at all --- considering their own experiences. But relatively few semi-intelligent Marxists can get a lot of traction with the banal vices, common to all of us, in every age, place and time. Jealousy, Envy, Greed, Anger, Sloth etc. Modern Marxists with their virtuous sounding names [Critical Race Theorists --- don't you want to be able to "think critically"? Social Justice "warriors/activists" --- can you be against justice? Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist activists --- are you in favor of Fascism or Racism?] appeal to those vices (or they are prone to those vices) or attribute those same vices to their opponents. See Sarah above. [ We actually agree on two things now. Rufo is NOT a "right wing extremist". Vices are involved.]
HENCE, If you want to argue with them, then you're a hater, fascist, racist or a greedy capitalist oppressor --- or all of the above. Simple formula for simple minds. The trick is called "ad hominem" and it only works on people who have not been taught logic. When people quit teaching the first 3 of the so-called 7 Liberal Arts, which are Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic and switched to "language arts" and so-called "modern logic/s", it left everybody wide open to so-called "language games". I think that Bible readers call the process, in effect, building "The Tower of Babel", where, metaphorically, God has come down to confuse American Speech.
So Americans aren't stupid --- just new age Babble-onians! [He said with tongue firmly stuck out the side of his cheek]. Keep smiling BOOMER! Me too!
No! It is neither possible, nor likely, that there are that many stupid people!
BUT, Most Americans don't actually read about Karl Marx's so-called "classless society" because they don't read Karl Marx. What they do know about, is Marx's so-called "class struggle/s". They can see people who are richer than them and who wouldn't even look down at them --- like Lazarus and the poor man in your Bible. Those people know "class". There are others, who don't like differences between poor and rich people. They want equality. They don't think about Marx's "pipe dream" classless society. They just want Justice and fairness. They become so-called Social Justice "warriors" or "activists". The name is never Marxism. It's named "woke" or "critically aware" or "socially just" --- never flat out MARXISM.
There are not very many "stupid" people at all --- considering their own experiences. But relatively few semi-intelligent Marxists can get a lot of traction with the banal vices, common to all of us, in every age, place and time. Jealousy, Envy, Greed, Anger, Sloth etc. Modern Marxists with their virtuous sounding names [Critical Race Theorists --- don't you want to be able to "think critically"? Social Justice "warriors/activists" --- can you be against justice? Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist activists --- are you in favor of Fascism or Racism?] appeal to those vices (or they are prone to those vices) or attribute those same vices to their opponents. See Sarah above. [ We actually agree on two things now. Rufo is NOT a "right wing extremist". Vices are involved.]
HENCE, If you want to argue with them, then you're a hater, fascist, racist or a greedy capitalist oppressor --- or all of the above. Simple formula for simple minds. The trick is called "ad hominem" and it only works on people who have not been taught logic. When people quit teaching the first 3 of the so-called 7 Liberal Arts, which are Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic and switched to "language arts" and so-called "modern logic/s", it left everybody wide open to so-called "language games". I think that Bible readers call the process, in effect, building "The Tower of Babel", where, metaphorically, God has come down to confuse American Speech.
So Americans aren't stupid --- just new age Babble-onians! [He said with tongue firmly stuck out the side of his cheek]. Keep smiling BOOMER! Me too!
Excellent comments, Kevin!